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I'm ashamed to say that my State University is involved with this BS.......

Thanksgiving 'myth'? Universities ask whether Americans should 'reconsider' holiday as 'Day of Mourning'

At least six universities are participating in the event

Several American universities are participating in an event asking whether Americans should "reconsider" the Thanksgiving holiday.

The alumni associations of the University of Maryland, Florida Gulf Coast University, Washington State University, University of Central Arkansas, Hiram College in Ohio and California State University, Long Beach are participating.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-univ...anksgiving
I'm just here for the turkey and jellied cranberry sauce.

And these woke folks need to chill before they take all the federal holidays away and make the banks and USPS actually work. Lol.
Here's the actual history of Thanksgiving, according to Wikipedia: 

"The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating both days of prayer and fasting in response to disasters thought to reflect divine judgement, and also days of thanksgiving, thanking God for blessings such as a military victory or the end of a drought.[3] The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.[4] This feast lasted three days, and—as recounted by attendee Edward Winslow[5]—was attended by 90 Wampanoag and 53 Pilgrims.[6]

"Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, with a proclamation by President George Washington after a request by Congress.[7] President Thomas Jefferson chose not to observe the holiday, and its celebration was intermittent until President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", calling on the American people to also, "with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience .. fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation...". Lincoln declared it for the last Thursday in November.[8][9] On June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Holidays Act that made Thanksgiving a yearly appointed federal holiday in Washington D.C.[10][11][12] On January 6, 1885, an act by Congress made Thanksgiving, and other federal holidays, a paid holiday for all federal workers throughout the United States.[13] Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the date was moved to one week earlier, observed between 1939 and 1941 amid significant controversy. From 1942 onwards, Thanksgiving, by an act of Congress, signed into law by FDR, received a permanent observation date, the fourth Thursday in November, no longer at the discretion of the President.[14][15]"

So, what the heck does this have to do with Native Americans, other than the fact that the Pilgrims were nice enough to invite them to the first one?
I don't give a [BLEEP] about wokeness or woke people. [BLEEP] em all.. I'm going to do what I want. [BLEEP] their feelings.

Bring on the turkey and stuffing and Happy Thanksgiving!!
Just burn all of the books and re-write history
(11-21-2021, 07:02 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]Here's the actual history of Thanksgiving, according to Wikipedia: 

"The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating both days of prayer and fasting in response to disasters thought to reflect divine judgement, and also days of thanksgiving, thanking God for blessings such as a military victory or the end of a drought.[3] The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.[4] This feast lasted three days, and—as recounted by attendee Edward Winslow[5]—was attended by 90 Wampanoag and 53 Pilgrims.[6]

"Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, with a proclamation by President George Washington after a request by Congress.[7] President Thomas Jefferson chose not to observe the holiday, and its celebration was intermittent until President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", calling on the American people to also, "with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience .. fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation...". Lincoln declared it for the last Thursday in November.[8][9] On June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Holidays Act that made Thanksgiving a yearly appointed federal holiday in Washington D.C.[10][11][12] On January 6, 1885, an act by Congress made Thanksgiving, and other federal holidays, a paid holiday for all federal workers throughout the United States.[13] Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the date was moved to one week earlier, observed between 1939 and 1941 amid significant controversy. From 1942 onwards, Thanksgiving, by an act of Congress, signed into law by FDR, received a permanent observation date, the fourth Thursday in November, no longer at the discretion of the President.[14][15]"

So, what the heck does this have to do with Native Americans, other than the fact that the Pilgrims were nice enough to invite them to the first one?

Either way the woke mob will be against it. They certainly don't have any use for God or Christianity and the Native Americans were "taken advantage" of so.....

Native Americans have definitely been taken advantage of but not in relation to why this country celebrates Thanksgiving. 

I honestly had no idea the history behind it as TRM shared.